WYOMING — To complement a zapateria, a dulceria and about 40 other shops, the 34th Street Mall soon will add a banquet hall.

Mall operators said they hope to have the loading dock of a former Hope Network facility at 3375 S. Division Ave. ready by September to host birthday parties, wedding receptions and quinceaneras. The Zoning Board of Appeals is scheduled to consider a parking variance at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“The Spanish people do have a lot of different activities to celebrate,” said Kwang Kim, an owner of the mall that opened in January 2010.

Kim, a Korean, converted most of the 110,300-square-foot building into a mall that houses a variety of stores selling clothing, shoes, jewelry, perfume, candy, blankets, cell phones and other items. It also houses a cyber café, beauty salon and a food court headlined by Garibaldi Restaurant. About 90 percent of the vendors are Mexican, Kim said.

He said he will spend about $90,000 turning 6,586 square feet at the northwest corner of the building into a banquet hall with two rooms, one with 160 seats and the other with 128 seats. The hall would be marketed for Hispanic family parties on Saturday nights with no commercial gatherings planned, he said.

“It’s got to be the retail, restaurant and banquet hall,” Kim said. “Those three are going to make a good combination.”

Wyoming planners were cool to an original proposal this spring for an 8,975-square-foot, 454-seat banquet hall at the east end of the building, along Division. A downsized and relocated design then won approval, although parking on the 11.2 acres — shared by three other buildings, including one that soon will house a Mexican supermarket — still falls short of city requirements.

The site has 572 parking spaces, while the city requires 826 spots. But parking should not be a problem because mall hours and banquet hall parties will not overlap, said Juan M. Davis, the architect on the project.

“This is why we plan to have (banquets) only Saturday nights,” he said. “It’s not a place that’s going to be 24-7.”

The idea of a banquet hall has sparked parking and security concerns among some neighbors. The Planning Commission voted 5-4 against allowing a 24,000-square-foot banquet hall at the site in 2007.

Kim said he plans to staff parties with two security guards, and the city is prohibiting access to the hall via 34th Street to minimize neighborhood disturbance.